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QuickTidal, on 20 January 2025 - 04:33 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 January 2025 - 02:58 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 20 January 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Took the kids to SONIC 3...great flick! ... Shadow doing the "Akira Slide" on the Side of a building.

No one w me understood why i was laughing so hard at that.

There was a joke that is escaping me right now that I laughed at hard and no one else did becuase they were all younger than me and didn't get it...
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There were a few of these, i thought more than once this movie respected the adults 'stuck' watching this. Tho honestly as kids movies go this was a blast. Carrey looked like he was having a great time. Maybe he's just selling it but i like to think he was.

[Tiste Simeon]

I recently watched Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and my word what a gloriously unhinged and hilarious film it was!

It starts off playing it quite straight like an inspirational biopic normally is (though the fact that the kids are all obsessed with polka gave me a good chuckle) but once Dr Demento comes in it just goes off the wall.

I loved it so much and as a fan of his work the random references and song lyrics gave me a good laugh, as did Weird Al himself being in it as a stuffy music executive.

Daniel Radcliffe puts in a great performance as Al, and Rachel Evan Wood as a psychotic Madonna is also very funny.

It's dumb but also clever if that makes sense. Don't take it too seriously!

[Mezla PigDog]

Alien Romulus. Mr PD tried to get me to see it at the movies but I ain't paying money to be disappointed by an Aliens film. Aliens is in my top 3 favourite movies. So we watched it on Disney+ yesterday.

Didn't like it. It's watchable but you could see stuff coming a mile off. The only thing that was good for an Alien movie was the sheer number of face huggers running around. I was squirming in my seat.

Otherwise - girl wakes up in her grey vest and knickers, girl has a very bad xenomorph filled day, girl gets back into her vest and knickers and goes into cryo sleep. The end.

[QuickTidal]

It’s my second fave movie of the last year! lol!

Different strokes

[worry]

The Wild Robot -- this was really good. Dealt with some big feelings, with both coming-of-age and parenthood side of things. And a few cool surprises in the plot as the story progressed. Dreamworks Animation is so all over the place compared to Pixar or even Disney, but this is one of their all-time best imo.

Didi -- this looks like it flew under the radar a bit last year, but I thought it was great. It's very much in the vein of Eighth Grade (which I loved), but the main kid is a teenage boy during the summer before high school. It's a little more teen testosterone-y than Eighth Grade, naturally, but still very slice of life, very sharp about the insecurities of that age, and even when it gets dramatic it still hits realistic notes. He's Taiwanese-American so there's a racial component to the social navigation he's doing too. It takes place in that spot when Myspace was winding down and Facebook was 'cool', lots of AIM convos, etc. Joan Chen plays his mom (and is the only big name screen presence, though there's a couple cute voice cameos from Spike Jonze and Stephanie Hsu). Anyway, she's absolutely fantastic, and so's the main kid.

This post has been edited by worry: 02 February 2025 - 09:21 PM

[amphibian]

Bottoms is surprisingly good for being a sorta charming huckster lesbian Breakfast Club type of movie.

I'm also shocked by how good an actor Marshawn Lynch is in this movie.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 02 February 2025 - 09:21 PM, said:

The Wild Robot -- this was really good. Dealt with some big feelings, with both coming-of-age and parenthood side of things. And a few cool surprises in the plot as the story progressed. Dreamworks Animation is so all over the place compared to Pixar or even Disney, but this is one of their all-time best imo.

The first movie to make my daughter (who is 8 1/2) cry. She was sobbing so much at the end that she didn't even want to look at us. Great movie. Really emotional, but well made.


Took my son to see DOGMAN on the weekend, and he loved it. This was my first experience with the character so I didn't know what to expect, but I thought it was really charming, and similar to SONIC had a bunch of jokes for adults. Very entertaining kid/family fare.

[Tiste Simeon]

amphibian, on 02 February 2025 - 11:45 PM, said:

Bottoms is surprisingly good for being a sorta charming huckster lesbian Breakfast Club type of movie.

I'm also shocked by how good an actor Marshawn Lynch is in this movie.

Agree on both counts I wasn't sure what I was getting into but that was a great movie (in a slightly unhinged chaotic way!)

[QuickTidal]

My other birthday money purchase is this new box set of Jackie Chan's PROJECT A, and PROJECT A 2. Can't wait to watch. I've only seen them once years ago on shitty VHS copies that a friend showed me, so it's going to be nice to have them remastered on BluRay! Also, it's got wonderful artwork on the box.

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[worry]

I looooooooove Project A 2, maybe my favorite in terms of his period movies (yeah, even more than Drunken Master 2).

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 03 February 2025 - 02:25 PM, said:

I looooooooove Project A 2, maybe my favorite in terms of his period movies (yeah, even more than Drunken Master 2).

I recall liking it, but I saw it SOOOOO long ago, that I'll need a refresher. And to be fair, the reason this particular set took so long (other than rights shit that always goes along with Jackies stuff) is that the guys at the studio that remastered it wanted to make sure it was perfect and that all the extras they could have on it were on it.

So I think I'm in for a treat!

[QuickTidal]

I can't tell if binging some Adam Curtis documentaries/visual essays in the current political climate is helping with my anxiety or making it worse...probably the latter. Oh well, always entertaining if occasionally bordering on conspiratorial.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 05 February 2025 - 07:05 PM

[QuickTidal]

Celestial Pictures has put up a bunch of free full Shaw Bros. movies on their YouTube page!

If you've ever been curious of classic kung fu, go have a gander! Lots of cool stuff there.

https://www.youtube....@ShawBrosCinema

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 06 February 2025 - 04:58 PM, said:

Celestial Pictures has put up a bunch of free full Shaw Bros. movies on their YouTube page!

If you've ever been curious of classic kung fu, go have a gander! Lots of cool stuff there.

https://www.youtube....@ShawBrosCinema

Huh looks good any you can particularly recommend to start with?

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 06 February 2025 - 06:54 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 06 February 2025 - 04:58 PM, said:

Celestial Pictures has put up a bunch of free full Shaw Bros. movies on their YouTube page!

If you've ever been curious of classic kung fu, go have a gander! Lots of cool stuff there.

https://www.youtube....@ShawBrosCinema

Huh looks good any you can particularly recommend to start with?

The only ones I've seen of the ones on the channel are OPERATION LIPSTICK and THE BUTTERFLY CHALICE...the latter is more Wuxia in style (and MAY be one of Chang Cheh [of the famed Venom Mob films]'s first films?) and is good...but of the two I enjoyed OPERATION LIPSTICK more as it's got more varied elements to it, features Chang Pei Pei (who is my fave Shaw Bros. actress), and has lots of humour and stuff like that in it.

[QuickTidal]

Watched that new Amazon Original flick YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED where Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon book the same wedding venue that can only host one family, chaos ensues.

It started out okay with some funny jokes, but about 20 minutes in I realized that the cursing-for-cursings-sake (think Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool overkill of swearing), the idiotic writing of characters, and the fact that it didn't really know what to do with itself kicked in...and the back half of the movie is just off the rails insane (and not in a good way). And looking at Stoller's writing resume, I'm not surprised, I've liked exactly 2 films in his long repertoire of comedies just like this.

Just bad, even as comfort comedy nonsense watch it's not good.

[Tsundoku]

Yes, please!

[Slow Ben]

Heck yes! I’ll take another accountant.


Goonies 2 is in development.

https://variety.com/...2Fz7GgAzzczWjUg


Skeptical is an understatement.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 15 February 2025 - 04:10 AM

[worry]

Flow -- another great animated movie from last year. Riveting and unpredictable from start to finish imo. I don't wanna give anything away, so I'll just say it's a wonderful adventure story with a lot of heart, and a bigger fantasy element than I was expecting. Dunno where it is elsewhere, but it was added to HBO/Max in the US over the weekend.

[QuickTidal]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 16 December 2024 - 09:50 PM, said:

We watched War of the Rohirrim yesterday. Thoroughly enjoyed it! It has a light touch with its references to LOTR and it's an enjoyable original story.

Animation is largely very pretty with some weird decisions/phoned in bits that are a little jarring on occasion.

Liberal use of the Rohan theme from LOTR and I LOVED that ��

Finally got around to watching this, and I agree. I admit I was expecting it to be not that good, but it was really enjoyable...and the light touches to LOTR were minor enough to not feel stapled onto it. It definitely feels like its own thing in the Tolkien world, and that felt right.

The animation was better than it seemed in the trailers. Music is incredible! I'll buy this on BluRay and let it sit beside the other two box sets I have of the Jackson LOTR/Hobbit stuff.

If you're looking for a really fun, if occasionally predictable romp in middle earth, this is no slouch.


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I also watched CONLCAVE which was excellent. I have absolutely no interest in religion, the pope, or even the Conclave...but this was an exceptionally well made film with a wonderful score, cinematography, and acting and is tense throughout, and directed with aplomb. Just really worth the nomination for Best Picture. It kept me entertained throughout.


And lastly I watched SECTION 31...the Michelle Yeoh-starring, TV show turned into a Star Trek movie about Phillipa Georgiou (former Emperor of the Terran Empire from the Mirror Universe; and standout star of DISCO S1-4) and it was bad. Like it never ever resembles a Trek project in any way...nothing about it FEELS like Trek...and what's worse is that it fails as a movie even ignoring that it's a Trek movie...it's not even a good action movie. Yeoh does her best with what's offered to her for script choices, but everyone else is BEYOND forgettable...including an out-of-nowhere-and-pointless cameo by Jamie Lee Curtis...just a waste of 1.5hours, even one a plane to kill time. Do not bother.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 21 February 2025 - 02:13 PM